This project called for the design of a housing unit with a dwelling unit for a single inhabitant combined with one for a household of three, positing an architectural mechanism for joining and separating the two. The project was then implemented across a site five times as part of a multi-unit project. The project first took a simple courtyard house form, then interfered with it through a series of operations with another secondary volume. The resultant was a switching of ownership of different outdoor spaces based on subtle formal relationships and bounding conditions. When proliferated on the site the forms and sectional shifts allowed for multiple configurations and interlocks, creating relationships between spaces that don't exist in another configuration. Outdoor space and indoor space for private use always exists above or below grade while paths are created for public circulation through and around the units at grade.

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CRITIC: ALAN ORGANSCHI _ SPRING 2007 _ YALE UNIVERSITY

This project called for the design of a housing unit with a dwelling unit for a single inhabitant combined with one for a household of three, positing an architectural mechanism for joining and separating the two. The project was then implemented across a site five times as part of a multi-unit project. The project first took a simple courtyard house form, then interfered with it through a series of operations with another secondary volume. The resultant was a switching of ownership of different outdoor spaces based on subtle formal relationships and bounding conditions. When proliferated on the site the forms and sectional shifts allowed for multiple configurations and interlocks, creating relationships between spaces that don't exist in another configuration. Outdoor space and indoor space for private use always exists above or below grade while paths are created for public circulation through and around the units at grade.

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